In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smile
Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply -- an awkward, rigid laugh
And I'm carried helpless by my floating basket raft

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine, and bitter as mustard greens
And it's light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

Go plow some other field and try and forget my name, we'll see what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas, but by the first week of july -- they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high

Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns, and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars

And the books are overdue and the goats are underfed... the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

You're a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked you ever since
If she comes circling back, we'll end where we'd begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one

Or if I'm a crown without a king, if I'm a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

64 Comments

General CommentThe end.. "I do not exist... only You exist..." It's beautiful. I was there when they played it at Cornerstone. We sat there in amazement.
I think my favorite line, however, is "The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead."
Thank you for posting this song, you fail me.

General Comment^^^the version you and everyone has is promotional, so we cannot say for sure that the I Do Not exist" is not on there until a retail version leaks.
It is very possible that there is a hidden track after this song as well, due to the silence on the promo.

General Commenti think it's "you made a holy fool of me, and i begged you ever since."

since the tour with Minus the Bear, i had been dying to hear this song again. the line about pumpkernickle bread had been stuck in my head since that day, but i had no idea how good the "the trap..." line was. that is probably my favorite aaron weiss line of all time.

General CommentIt may be Mustard Seeds, although it doesn't sound like it, because they refer to faith being the size of a Mustard seed often in the Bible to describe the faithless. Not sure what that has to do with the song, this man seems to have very much faith. Also I second the baby-ankle line, I keep hearing baby.